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'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919' [203r] (410/738)
The record is made up of 1 volume (365 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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399
THE LEBANON AND ANTI-LEBANON
constructing a new dam below the present one, and so to
collect the flood waters which now run to waste was considered.
The volume of water in the river at this point is over 66,000,000
galls, per day. It was proposed to supply Homs by utilizing
the power at the mill below the Tripoli-Homs chaussee, to
pump 4,000 cub. m. a day on a 36-metre rise to a reservoir on
the top of the citadel hill. The water, where it issues from the
lake, is milky in appearance, but chemical analysis proved
it to be very good after the fine clay had been withdrawn:
the water, however, was not tested bacteriologically.
From the outlet of the lake the river flows north-east
through a broad, shallow, and marshy depression, and is crossed
by the railway bridge; farther upstream it is crossed by a,
bridge and causeway 500 yds. long carrying the Homs Tripoli
carriage-road. Between the lake and the bridges the river is
400 yds. wide and unerossable. Opposite Homs the channel
is 1 mile west of the town. Pressed out by the eastern trend
of the mountain, its subsequent course lies in a deep chasm
which at Restan is crossed by a bridge of 14 arches carrying
the Aleppo chaussee. Taking a wide easterly bend from this
point, the river skirts the eastern base of J. Arba in, then,
bearing round to south-west in a gorge 200-300 ft. deep, it
issues between rugged mountains above Hama and flows
through the town under several bridges. Here numerous
nd‘urahs (water wheels) are used for pumping the town supply
and for irrigation.
About 12 miles beyond Hama the river passes close north
of Qal‘at es-Seijar, which stands on a plateau dominating the
valley. Here it breaks through a rocky barrier into the low
wide plain of Apamea, being crossed near the mouth of the
gorge by a bridge of 10 arches. The river, now flowing west
wards, passes close 1. of Bahret el-Tereimsi, a lake 5-6 miles
long, 2-3 miles wide, and never more than 6 ft. deep.
Although much reduced in area in summer, this lake is neve.,
dry ; it is surrounded on all sides by cane and willow brakes
and the centre is covered with reeds providing covet for great
numbers of wild fowl..
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Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor , Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).'
'Contents. Chapters:
- I. Boundaries and Physical Survey, p 9 (folio 7)
- II. Climate, p 24 (folio 14v)
- III. Minerals, Flora and Fauna, p 93 (folio 50)
- IV. Military History, p 109 (folio 58)
- V. Inhabitants, p 175 (folio 91)
- VI. Turkish Administration, p 236 (folio 121v)
- VII. Agriculture, p 252 (folio 129v)
- VIII. Industry and Trade, p 276 (folio 141v)
- IX. Currency, Weights and Measures, p 318 (folio 162v)
- X. Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 325 (folio 166)
- XI. Country East of Jebel Ansarīyeh, p 344 (folio 175v)
- XII. Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, and Damascus Plain, p 357 (folio 182)
- XIII. River Systems of Northern Syria, p 395 (folio 201)
- XIV. Judea and the Southern Desert, p 427 (folio 217)
- XV. Samaria (including Carmel), p 472 (folio 239v)
- XVI. Galilee, p 515 (folio 261)
- XVII. Haurān and Jaulān, p 556 (folio 281v)
- XVIII. 'Ajlūn and Northern Belqa, p 580 (folio 293v)
- XIX. Southern Belqa and Ardh el-Kerak, p 612 (folio 309v)
- XX. El-Jibāl and Esh-Shera, p 636 (folio 321v)
- XXI. The Ghōr (Jordan and the Dead Sea); and Wādi 'Arabah, p 645 (folio 326)
- Appendix: Conventional Spellings, p 668 (folio 337v)
- Index, p 669 (folio 338)
- Plates, p 725' [missing]
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (365 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume contains a contents page (folio 6) and an index (folios 338-365).
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 367; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence. The volume originally contained fourteen plates showing maps, bound into the back of the volume. These are now missing; details of the plates can be found at folio 5v.
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- 'A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:366v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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